Railroad construction.



M. H. MADSEN.

RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION.

APPUCATION FILED mums. 1911.

Patented July 16, 1918.

INVE/VTUR v MADS H. MADSEN, 0F KIMBALLTON, IOWA.

RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION.

Application filed July 16, 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MADS I-I. MADsEN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Kimballton, in the county of Audubon and State of Iowa, have invented a certain new and useful Railroad Construction, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a device of simple, durable and inexpensive construction which may be quickly and easily applied to the rails of a railroad for holding them at the proper distance from each other.

With these and other objects in view my invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of the various parts of the device, whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claim and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 shows a side elevation of the invention.

Fig. 2 shows a vertical, transverse, sectional view through one of the rails, showing a portion of one of the tie members in side elevation.

Fig. 3 shows a top or plan view of one of the tie members secured to the rail.

Fig. 4 shows a similar view of one of the locking plates used for securing a tie mem- "ber to the rail.

In the accompanying drawings, I have used the reference numeral 10 to indicate generally a pair of rails of a railroad track.

It is desirable that some method be provided for securing the rails together.

For this purpose I use a special tie mem- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 16, 1918.

Serial No. 180,790.

28, illustrated in Fig. 2, so shaped and located, as to receive one edge A of a plate 29 in such manner that the plate 29 rests above the base of the rail, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. Each plate 29 is provided with opposite, spaced cars 30, which may be bent downwardly on opposite sides of the shoulders 27 and the bar 26, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, along side the rail base for preventing the removal of the plates 29 and for fir ply locking the bar 26 on the bases of the ra1 As many of the cross tie members 26 may be used as is necessary and desirable for properly holding the rails against spreadmg.

The tie members 26 and the means for fastening them to the rails are simple and durable.

The rails are firmly and rigidly locked in position. The track may be taken up by straightening out the members 30, and the same parts may be used again.

Some changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of the parts of my improved device without departing from the essential features and purposes of my invention, and it is my intention to cover by the claim herein, any such modified forms of structure or use of mechanical equivalents, as may be reasonably included within the scope of my claim.

I claim as my invention:

The combination of a pair of parallel rails with a tie bar having near its opposite ends spaced shoulders extending upwardly and inclined toward each other, said tie bar having a flat surface upon which the respective rails rest, each rail being between one pair of shoulders, said shoulders being spaced above the base of the rails, and looking devices each comprising a flat horizontal bar adapted to be slipped between a shoulder and a rail base, each of said flat bars having at its ends projecting lugs bent downwardly on opposite sides of said tie bar and. adjacent to the side edge of the rail base.

Des Moines, Iowa, June 22, 1917.

MADS H. MADSEN.

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